Word: explainers
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Sony won't explain what went wrong. Sony Computer Entertainment president Kazuo Hirai will say only that PlayStation2 is a "very complex machine that requires a lot of components." But the guessing in Japan is that the company botched the production of graphics chips. Skeptics in the gaming community are flooding the Internet with charges that Sony has created an artificial shortage in a calculated attempt to make PS2 this year's Furby, the gotta-have-it toy of the holiday season. But Sony says it isn't so. "It's absolutely ridiculous to suggest that by limiting our audience...
...read all the books now, and I said to her about the ending of Goblet of Fire, "When you reach Chapter 30, Mommy's going to read it to you, all right?" Because I thought, I'm going to have to hug her, and I've got to explain the stuff. And when the character did die, I looked at her to see if she was O.K., and she went, "Oh, it's not Harry." She didn't give a damn. I was almost thinking, "Is this not scary at all?" She was just like, "Harry...
...supply-side faithful who viewed Steve Forbes as a visionary, Gore to the labor leaders who saw Bill Bradley as the Real Thing. And yet in each case the decision actually had roots much deeper than the demands of the moment, roots in biography and personal philosophy, which help explain why neither man discarded the position once he had safely wrapped up the nomination and needed to reach out to the independents. There is indeed a difference between these men, in where they came from and how they got here, in the instincts and instruments they bring to this race...
...Phillip W. Hines, assistant professor of pathology, draws an analogy between cells and cars to explain how the cell tries to fight cancer. The disease tries to put the normal cell machinery on overdrive. The cell can respond by destroying itself or by putting on the breaks--stopping its movement through the cell cycle. Cancers try to disable p53 because it plays a key role in both of these cancer-fighting mechanisms...
...this point, the cynics out there are clamoring for me to explain those students who seem to have gotten in to Harvard for reasons other than brain matter, like the "legacies," the "diplomatic kids" and, of course, the athletes. My response is simple. Some people do get into Harvard for reasons, in part, other than their brains, but this, of course, is because no one gets into Harvard just because of their brains. We sometimes forget that Harvard does set basic requirements for anyone who wants to get in. When it comes to academics, those requirements are very high...